#irksome things

[vinceaddams]

Listing fabric prices by the half metre is bad and shameful and I hate that so many online stores do it. Listing it by the quarter metre is even more bad and shameful.

#irksome things #fabric

[gremoria411]

Gundam Build Metaverse then, now that I’ve finished watching it.

Well, that was shit.

That’s kind of my opinion in a nutshell, but unlike Gundam Breaker Battlogue, I actually want to talk about this one. I’ve mentioned previously that I hold up Build Divers as an example of what I don’t want to see, but while Build Metaverse shares some flaws, it’s a whole new level of failure.

I do want to acknowledge beforehand though that, as with the rest of the build series, Gundam Build Metaverse is aimed at a younger audience and is pretty blatant about its intention to sell toys. Perhaps this precludes it being seriously analysed as a work of entertainment. However, I quite like the original Build Fighters series so I at least want to compare it to that. Gundam Build Metaverse also has the air of: “we’re not doing anything else with this series, ever” about it, simply because it’s almost a reunion of prior characters from the series. As such, I’d like to consider it as the end of the series (because I likely won’t watch any future instalments).

Alright so, the plot as it is; Rio Hojo is joining the Gundam Metaverse in Hawaii and wants to impress his mentor, Seira Urutsuki. Unfortunately she’s sworn off Gundam Metaverse due to a falling out with her sister Maria, in which her Maria used her Gunpla parts without permission in a battle and still lost, revealing her insecurities about not being as good as her sister in the process. Rio eventually challenges Maria and defeats her, healing the rift between the sisters. Along the way Rio meets and interacts with past series protagonists and characters. It’s about as insipid as it sounds.

I want to specifically focus on Maria, the antagonist, because the reveal of her motivation was essentially the point I realised it wasn’t going to get better. The usage of somebody’s Gunpla parts without permission is exactly as dumb of a motivation as it sounds, but the feelings of inadequacy actually has some weight to it, since it’s the sort of topic Build Fighters has touched on before. What bothers me about Maria is that she presents this cool, unbothered persona for her early encounters, but the second Rio mentions her sister, she basically has a breakdown with zero prompting. Over an event that happened two years ago. But wait! It’s typical Gundam protagonist style to talk female foes in giant mobile suits (Maria’s Typhoeus Gundam even incorporates psycho Gundam Mk-II parts), surely Rio can get through! And what does he say?

“But you kept buying the toys, right?”

Real classy there Hojo. And this actually works too, so it just underlines how stupid this entire conflict was.

It bothers me more, because in the original Build Fighters, Aila Jyrkäinen was essentially being forced to compete against her will due to her extraordinary abilities in the field, so Reiji helping her escape that had actual meaning and stakes. But Maria’s grievances are so stupid that it’s just meaningless, moreso that she’s apparently been holding onto this for two years.

Unrelated point, but everyone’s the same age in this, despite the fact that time was pretty clearly established to have passed in the older series. It’s possible that everyone’s using younger avatars for some reason, but both Reiji and Aila show up in crowd scenes set in the real world with their original designs, despite being established as having a child together. I know no-one really cares about chronology in the build series (myself included), but it’s still notable.

There’s two new designs I haven’t discussed yet that I also want to talk about;

First, the Gundam Typhoeus.

I like the Raphael Gundam, I think it’s a nice unit, but the Typhoeus is just grossly overbuilt. I’m used to the build series having gigantic mobile armours to communicate a sense of threat, but when the Typhoeus showed up I genuinely thought “How the fuck is that legal?” It just one-shots three suits with zero effort. I don’t really like designs that are just a bunch of weapons and systems crammed on to make something appear strong, and the Typhoeus is undeniably that. I understand that its model kit gives it a proper loadout when its just in its mobile suit form, but the additional armour is just unnecessary.

The Amazing Barbatos Lupus. As a design, I kinda like it. It’s a reasonably solid update to the Barbatos Lupus and I like how the backpack resembles a Pluma (or indeed, a mini-Hashmal). The mace also reminds me of the shot lancers from Gundam F91, so it feels like a natural “fit”. The new horns are also lovely. My only real criticism of the design is that I feel more could have been done to make it feel “Amazing” - the legs and front skirt for example, are pretty much unchanged. The shoulders I mind less, since the backpack compensates for their plainness, but the lower half just feels lacking.

However, I feel it had a very poor showing in series.

Part of this is because of a wider issue - while the Typhoeus and Maria are very well-animated, the rest of the series seems to have a very limited budget for animation. Many of the fights were short and I spotted instances of recycled animation. Even the first episode with the 00 Diver Arc, which I would say is the best fight in the series (though that isn’t saying much) feels distinctly wooden. I don’t rate the fights, in a nutshell. Furthermore, despite me gushing over Mask Lady’s design last time, we never get to see her properly animated - she’s in two cockpit scenes, largely static, and another where we only see her head and shoulders. It’s a shame.

But the Amazing Barbatos Lupus seems to have been designed to get around this. It’s virtually always seen in static poses - the only time it’s shown to attack is raising its mace and shooting (allowing the rest of the suit to remain still) or firing a beam cannon out of its mace (while the rest of the suit moves in a single pose). So I’m just thinking this the whole time:

So the Barbatos, a suit defined by its approach to melee combat, just flies about shooting a beam cannon out of its mace. The only dynamic shot it actually has is when it pulls out it’s claws to fight Kyoya Kujo, a fight which we do not see. Speaking of Kyoya Kujo, it’s built up that Meijin Kawaguchi III is finally going to have a climactic battle with Sei and Reiji, then Kyoya (who is, and always has been a nothing character) just shows up out of nowhere to challenge him and prevent the fight (to save them having to animate it, presumably).

Speaking of Nothing Characters, basically every returning character’s bereft of personality in this. They’re just here “to fight”. There’s no motivation or anything, they just want to fight in the Gundam Metaverse. So they feel like cardboard cut-outs. (For the record, I liked Magee in Build Divers, but in this they’re just…. Stereotypical? I think?). Speaking of a cast of cardboard, pretty much all the female characters get pushed aside in this. I’m not going to dwell on it, since I don’t find it surprising given the shows demographic, but none of the female characters are shown with any agency, they lose pretty much every fight they’re in and Maria ascends to the title of “Lady Kawaguchi VII”. So, the seventh Lady Kawaguchi, despite no-one having dethroned Meijin Kawaguchi III in all this time, you’re telling me there’s been six Lady Kawaguchi’s? Almost like the position’s disposable? (You could maybe say Gyanko’s an exception to losing every fight, but that feels like grasping at straws, since she’s barely a cameo).

Gundam Build Metaverse - a show that really wants you to be excited for the Metaverse, and has a plot almost as sufferance.

I feel like the fact that my highlight of the show was seeing 0.3 seconds of the Schuzrum Gallus probably illustrates how little I liked this show.

EDIT: I somehow made this entire post without remembering the name of the series protagonist, Rio Hojo. Instead, I mixed him up with Wistario Afram, the protagonist of Urdr Hunt. So yeah, the protagonist is pretty forgettable, because I literally forgot him.

#I have other complaints about Rio but these will do #gundam build metaverse #Rio Hojo #Meijin Kawaguchi III #Lady Kawaguchi #Gundam Typhoeus #Gundam Amazing Barbatos Lupus #Gundam #ramblings #irksome things #I liked the teeny tiny Gundam Astaroth Origin too

[farsight-the-char]

2 Archon Hunt Boss attempts and wiped both times.

Something was up with the Archon’s damage negation stuff? 

Will try again tomorrow.

#warframe #archon hunts are such... #irksome things #warframe petty complaining #I was using my endgame Hildryn build

[insulationsun]

I also just don't really think humanizing spamton or putting reasons to his actions is watering him down

#tbf ive only seen this opinion like. once. #so not really an issue #but i found it a bit irksome #cos its clear despite his behavior the game makes it easy to empathize with him #thats not there for no reason. like #in the process of not wanting to give him actual reasons to do things you just #make him one dimensional #though tbh the only ppl who think this way r redacteds so no use dwelling on such a #an opinion that comes from very few people w/ little impact

[laufire]

batman and catwoman have a primal kink thing going on so when she commits a crime and he chases her it's fine, it goes against his supposed motivation (stopping things like what happened to his parents) but I forgive him, it's CLEARLY a sex thing. but when any other superhero of that calibre troubles themselves with her it's just like. seriously?? a JEWEL thief?? aren't earthquakes happening right now, somewhere, at this very second, superman? is this really the best target for your brainwashing powers, zatanna? how about we leave that shit to actual law enforcement and focus on supervillains beyond their scope, natural disaster relief, minimising systemic issues, and preventable violence?

#(sorry to shed a light on ''conceits of the genre'' sometimes i like to take things seriously do u still think i'm sexy etc.) #comic books be BUT CRIME!!!! CRIMMINALSSSS ALL THE SAAAAME #(and look realistically catwoman-type crimes *can* branch out into something that's actually damaging #when you involve fences and money laundering -and the people who'd need it- and so on #but that's... rarely the point whenever a superhero goes after this type of crime #there's little examination it's just -as i said- ''it's bad because it's ILLEGAL''!! #and frankly i just think superheroes-are-actually-law-enforcers stories are like. the lowest form of entertainment in the genre. to me #i just happen to prefer other set-ups. which makes some of these stories a bit irksome to me lol) #talking to the void #my thoughts #dc #dc comics #batcat #catwoman #selina kyle #dc thoughts #tropes

[random-french-girl]

just finished catching up on cr3.... even knowing from spoilers that ashton would survive i'm pretty sure i lost 5 years of my life during that whole final sequence.

the worst of it wasn't even watching ashton make this stupid decision and not discuss it with the group and then almost explode (all of which was extremely frustrating) but the way he roped fearne into it. the two moments they had alone, by the clocktower and at the ziggurat, were fucking hard to watch. nauseating even! and yes i cheered when she kicked them in the face! i hope she shuns them for the next 15-20 episodes.

anyway at least this is going to make for delicious conflict going forward

#not gonna lie tho - the sheer stress/anger/disbelief of the whole cast VS tal's attitude throughout was like. not my favorite thing to watch #i find the whole ''digging your heels in and acting like you def knew what you were doing'' very irksome personally so that was not for me #anyhow. now i'm going to focus on imodna my best friend imodna #critical role #cr spoilers #im watching critical role

[welcometogrouchland]

Hey guys. Now that the Magnus protocol is on hiatus. Should I listen??

#ramblings of a lunatic #it's been years... #the new show seems cool! alice seems cool seems like exactly the kind of character I'm gonna fall head over heels for #I'm interested to see what flavor guest writers will bring to things #''ladel dont you still have comics to read-'' YES. AND? #i can do both. i can do podcasts and comics #<- she cannot multitask #the problem is tho idk if i can enjoy it casually. I'm incapable of enjoying things casually it's. actually very irksome #and I don't need to switch things up rn

[everybodyloveshippos]

actually wild how i was waiting for dahlia to be a terrible character (and defend her anyways bcus i love women lol) but then she actually ruled and was complex and messy and angry but had compassion and playfulness and you got to see her POV and why she acts like she does and how she sees the world and those close to her and learn about her self image like,,,,hm.

#legend of drizzt #like sure there were some things i could see ppl finding irksome about her character and the handling of it but she was so much more than i #expected given what id heard? like. what did i expect. shes a mean woman obviously she got the fandom death sentence #if u dont like her this isnt a personal attack #i just really love her

[owlpellet]

trying so so so hard to be brave and mature about that niram painting getting tagged as essek critrole

#me: i am a grown adult who can handle minorly irksome things #me upon seeing someone mistake my oc for a cr character: BITES BITES BITES BITES BITES

[intertexts]

gmmmm btw!

#how r we all...... #the vibes r. mmm. ambiguous today. friday which is awesome except ik im doing nothing fun this weekend. #forgor my wallet so i can't get an sd card on my way back. design prof said niceys things about both of my projects ^_^ #wore white pants on the most unfortunate possible day which is so irksome. it's nice n sunny out etc. #hfghvhggbhhh. whatever dude i have simply been playing loop hero & reading dunmeshi for the last three hours!! (<- presentation/review day #& im not particularly interested in watching her dissect other people's work all fucking morning & also im all caught up ^_^ #txt

[vinceaddams]

It annoys me when people describe an outfit or style as "timeless". There's no such thing as a timeless silhouette! Both men's and women's clothing has gone through many dramatic changes and been a wide variety of extreme shapes over the past few thousand years, and it's generally very distinct to its time, just as today's clothing is distinctly different from the fashions of a few decades ago. If clothing was timeless we wouldn't be able to date paintings and old photos by looking at what the people in them are wearing.

I think most of the time when they say something is "timeless" or "classic" they just mean ambiguously 20th century, which is a pretty tiny chunk of time.

#irksome things #fashion #stockings for men are more timeless than any pinstripe suit

[gremoria411]

This week, instead of rewatching Gundam Narrative, I finally got around to watching Gundam Breaker Battlogue, all 45-ish minutes of it.

Consider me cooled right the fuck down to Gundam Build Metaverse. Admittedly I didn’t expect much, but I would have found watching paint dry to be a preferable experience. There’s so little to it that I don’t even feel like expending the energy to even discuss it.

#It’s a damn shame because some of the animations really good #feels like a waste of material to be honest #gundam #irksome things #Gundam breaker battlogue

[faunandfloraas]

Do you take gif requests? 🙂

Hmmmmmmmmmm I mean if you link a vid and a timestamp and explain what exactly you want, I suppose I could :]

#unless its like a 5 minutes 75000 cap thing then prob not bc irksome #but if its like. Lee Know making a face or something than i'd probably happily do it #ask

[todayisafridaynight]

something that REALLY bothers me about the 3jima situation in 8.... how did no one know that that happened ? sure, ichi doesn't use the internet a whole lot, and kiryu wasn't keeping contact with them cause of daidoji bullshit, but... did ichi just Not keep contact with them at all? when they were literally doing what he was trying to do at hello work ?? giving ex-yakuza a shot at having a real job like ????

not to mention that a scandal like they went through definitely would have made it into the news like... hey the government is working with the yakuza. isn't that just a huge deal ????? that I'm sure SOMEONE must have seen

that whole thing just feels so so stupid iw sucks so much I'm so disappointed

IW's handling of daigo's security company is actually so half-assed- we don't even get watase's perspective on it despite him being a part of that project too he just fucks off entirely without even a mention

#iw spoilers #spoilers #snap chats #rgg's writing hasn't always been pristine but the thing is it's gotten better with recent titles #so seeing things be handled so messily its like ????? i need to see what happened in that writing room #ESPECIALLY when they were hyping it up so hard. LIKE GAMEPLAY WISE the game wholly delivered #im generally pretty happy with what the gameplay's given but the story ?????? goku ....... goku help ..... #the more i think of it the more agitated i get for what could have been #again daigo's company falling apart didnt have to be agitating #irksome for the fact daigo spent two years planning things leading up to the dissolution but whatever things happen #but the fact he just. Accepted It despite how we've seen him in the past bat for the tojo #i wouldve got it if he stopped caring about the tojo's men but THE COMPANY ALONE shows how much he cared for their futures #and again the fact they dont show any flashbacks thatd actually better demonstrate How Bad it was getting #also??? genuinely HOW surprising is it for the public that the security company theyre going to is run by ex yakuza #WHEN EVEYRONE SAW DAIGO ON THE NEWS. DISSOLVING THE YAKUZA #LIKE EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT IT WAS LMAO THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN NO SURPRISES HERE #its just dumb. literally just dumb. #chitose/tatara's skin in the game is so questionable too like sure shes being blackmailed but ??? how BAD is this blackmail #we dont even know what the blackmail is and yet she's so ardent on taking down the yakuza becausssseeeee...... #ive had a headache all day so ill cease my rambling for now just know now and forever im irked

[xiiayous]

// oooh sure sure sure. First off hi hello <: Question for the meme: How would you prefer Xiao to be characterized in T5 & T6?

♡ out of character ! ⸻ hello there ! it's so nice to meet you I love your lars ! to keep me from ranting, I essentially want her to progress from her TK3 & 4 days, not the ridiculously naive & stereotypically tsundere obsession with jin that came from the god awful portrayals of TK 5 & 6. now this is no attack on xiaoyu's innocence, as I think it's an important part of her character to want the best in all situations, but there's a fine line of being optimistic & being obscenely naive. I can understand her contemplating the tragedy of the mishima lineage, as it really is sad, but why can't she simply put forth more effort to reason with jin & company to do different out of the notion of trying to change the cycle of family violence versus trying to fund ... a time machine. that's my biggest beef w/ 5, as well as this being the game where she suddenly becomes really childish ( what happened to the xiao who beat down heihachi in her 3 ending because she wasn't getting her amusement park after all ? I'm here for quirks and such but the infantilization gets a bit too much ) ???. also .... the jin thing. as someone who has the worst aversion to the clingy - unrequitted love trope, seeing xiaoyu suddenly become weirdly possessive of jin and being weird to his family in terms of considering herself his girlfriend is just ... big no. the notion that xiaoyu is going to so much effort to help jin and bring him off the dark ledges simply because of romantic love that's probably not canonly requitted is just a big no for me, as I focus on xiaoyu's desire to help jin out of pure friendship and care. does she have a slight crush on him ? of course, but it's not something she says aloud or fangirls about to the point of it being a universal fact, and certainly not to the point of having this made up claim on him. let it be known that before all else, xiaoyu sees jin as a friend, a good one at that who's really in need of another friend who's there for him because during this entire saga, he literally has no one else and that's so terrifying for her to even think of. she truly believes that he deserves better, and wants him to see that there can be better, to enjoy a life that is filled with happiness and love. so for the sake of my sanity, I just want her to show growth instead of regression in terms of that: let her be a bubbly girl without the negative connotations becoming reality.

send me questions you have about my character!

#『♡🐼』 // i think i overdid it again ! ( answered. ) #( I just ) #( it's such a thing and it annoys me ) #( mai shiranui ... sakura haruno ... AMY ROSE ... ) #( not on my watch ) #( no means am I saying she needs to be cutthroat and cold like nina ) #( bc she's badass in her own right ) #( & I love the allure of the innocence being deceptive from ) #( the ass whooping she can put on you ) #( but it's just so ... irksome ) #( tekken has a really bad problem of letting one small trait ) #( take over a character ) #teslagravity #long post

[televisionforwhales]

Re: the least favorite trope poll, the only soulmate AU I remember having a positive response to was the reveal that Steve Rogers' soulmate was the Red Skull. A real sickos hahaha yesss moment. The trope is possibly only tolerable when it's a bit horrible, to me

#ive def mentioned a marqueliot soulmate au having potential at least #if its in-universe rare to have a triad or like agonizing or something lol. still not my main thing but id trust a good writer with it #but still irksome!